Greg Stark said: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > >> I noticed that we are using the term "Online Backup" in our >> documentation when we are talking about continuous backup and PITR. >> >> To me, "online backup" is doing a backup while the system is online >> (online-backup), and that is accomplished by pg_dump. > > Well fwiw what pg_dump does isn't even considered a "backup" at all in > other systems. It's a "logical export" or something of that sort. > > It's not considered a "backup" because it's saving something different > than the actual physical database. When you restore you get something > (hopefully) logically equivalent but still physically different.
This seems fairly arbitrary. On that basis anything on a higher level than dd is not a backup method, ISTM. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match